It was a new Newbern through whose thoroughfares the new motor truck of Trimble Cushman was so expertly propelled.

She had been away from Newbern for two years.

She still secretly relished the jesting address of Dave Cowan, when at long intervals he lingered in Newbern from cross-country flights.

The Wilbur twin here extracted from the dress pocket, to which he had transferred his few belongings, the half of something known to Newbern as a pennygrab.

The drama of each drew to a splendid climax with the arrival in Newbern of a French officerprobably a generalbound upon a grave mission.

On his feet he laughed softly, being again in Newbern on a fool's mission.

They drove back to Newbern in the late afternoon, still largely silent, though there was a little talk at the close on stretches of hill where the roan would consent to slacken his pace.